Home staging experts say every homeowner who intends on showing her home to prospective buyers must, above all else, do one thing to prep the home for a tour: Find an objective eye to give the place a look. But new scientific findings, MSNBC reports, suggest that one piece of decor might have your hapless ... Continue Reading »

One Massachusetts dentist got $2,500 in 50s and big ones as a construction crew he hired tore down the walls of a house he owns. As a worker gutted a portion of the home's walls, money suddenly burst from it like feathers, Boston's WHDH reports. "I was looking out the window in between patients and the fellow was ... Continue Reading »

One look at this sprawling contemporary and you can't help but think Hollywood. Floor-to-ceiling windows, marble-tiled floors, wet/dry bars, a huge jetted tub, swimming pool and even meditation area -- so LA, right? Think again. This 8,100-square-foot stunner is located in the charmingly small community of Arlington ... Continue Reading »

It comes as no big surprise that Frank Lloyd Wright was dubbed "the greatest American architect of all time" by the American Institute of Architects. But did you know that the home Wright (who's depicted in a bust at left) built for his mistress was set on fire by Wright's male servant who then axe-murdered seven people ... Continue Reading »

I regularly walk into my kitchen and open a drawer, only to forget what I am looking for. I walk into our laundry room to claim some clean socks, only to forget what it was I needed. When I call for the dog, my kid's name sometimes comes out of my mouth. And as much as I dislike Rick Perry, I totally got how he couldn't ... Continue Reading »

"Baywatch" queen Pamela Anderson -- and for the record, we're Borat-size Pamela fans -- is either giving the website Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO) a major publicity boost or the businesswoman in her (the only Malibu mom we've ever seen reading The Wall Street Journal at Little League games) sees a way to put her empty ... Continue Reading »

There are some architectural styles that just dictate my behavior. For instance, whenever I see a French Norman estate, I feel like I should lower my voice to a whisper and put paper slippers over my shoes before I traipse on in. This is one of those places. Located in Bel-Air, a Los Angeles community of expensive ... Continue Reading »

There comes a time in every real estate writer's life when she simply can no longer see the forest for the trees. She complains aloud that there should be a lifetime ceiling on just how many Mediterraneans one can reasonably be asked to describe and prays that the one she just wrote about will be her last. And then ... Continue Reading »

Will Bruder, who designed the Nevada Museum of Art, worked his magic on this Reno house as well. Let's end the head-scratching and just call it Desert Industrial Chic. It's one of those homes that's a piece of art in which people just happen to sleep. And it's now on the market for $2.15 million. The ... Continue Reading »

I'd like to propose that there be an architectural style called "Malibu" and we use this 10,000-square-foot oceanfront home listed at $27 million as the textbook example. The five-bedroom main house, designed by architect Douglas W. Burdge took what was once a 1970s seaside estate on the bluffs above Point Dume and, ... Continue Reading »

They don't make Hollywood pairings very often that outlast that of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's, so we're sending some good karma their way in their plans to lease out a Beverly Hills home they own for $27,500 a month. What do you get for that much? Six bedrooms and eight bathrooms in a 10,500-square-foot ... Continue Reading »

While most of our Houses of the Day have price tags with lots of commas and zeroes, today we departing from the norm to feature this 154-year-old gem in Normal, Ill., Listed at $400,000, the property is a step back in time to a period where rooms were smaller because they were easier to heat that way, and the closest ... Continue Reading »

There are man caves and then there are man caves. This oceanfront La Jolla home has the mother of all man caves: a 27-seat home theater with 10 screens so that you can watch simultaneous sporting events without switching channels. The home theater cost $1 million, according to the listing and has a state-of-the-art ... Continue Reading »

A new building is proposed for the heart of Mexico City: a 65-story edifice, packed with retail, offices, apartments and a museum. But unlike its skyscraping peers, this giant structure won't reach for the stars: It'll plunge toward earth's core. Architects have designed an "earth-scraper," a giant building that ... Continue Reading »

What mannequins are to store windows, furniture is to the staging industry. It helps the less visionary among us to envision how things should look. But staging a home for sale is an expensive proposition and often not in the cards for today's home sellers. Voila! Enter inFormed Space and its new line of fake ... Continue Reading »